Religious Studies

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Mesomedes
Lyric Addresses to Ancient and New Gods
This volume explores six lyric poems by Mesomedes, a Cretan court musician to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, addressing Greek traditional and »new« gods. Featuring a new edition of the Greek texts with annotated translations into English and Italian, it also includes essays revealing the cultural and religious dynamics of the Roman Empire in the second century AD.
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Aspects of Soteriology in John and Paul
The contributors to this volume move beyond 'standard' soteriological issues, addressing often-neglected aspects of the soteriology of John and Paul. They demonstrate how themes like wisdom, volition, freedom, and the role of angels form an integral part of soteriology.
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Purity in Ancient Judaism
The volume explores different texts and material evidence in relation to purity, impurity, and purification, from both the historic land of Israel and the Diaspora. It adduces comparative evidence from Greece, probes and refines concepts of moral and ritual (im)purity, and traces the relevance of purity debates into nascent Christianity.
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Revelation and Conflict in John 7 and 8
This collection of essays on the Gospel of John, chapters 7 and 8, written by an international group of leading scholars, explores the central theological and literary themes of these chapters, their setting at the festival of Booths, and the reception history of the hostile references to Jews in these chapters.
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